The Return to Wonder


III

Is there anything that cannot be twisted, usurped, by some other agenda?

 

 

XXII

 

So much of our quantum manifest existence is a collusion of vanity-vanity-all-is-vanity.

Each of us wandering restlessly through life, masturbating each other's egos.

All nothing more than imagination usurping the ever-present moment.

 

 

XLI

In our time’s industrial-technological mindset,

The cyclic rhythms of planets and moons and stars,

Are usurped in every way by mechanisms and algorithms.

More and more, we merely simulate existence, function unwittingly,

Not all that differently from tedious, senseless, mindless, zombie-esque cogs,

In a traumatized world where concepts have replaced nature,

In any and every ways and means one might look.

 

 

CXVII

 

The usurpation of homo sapien consciousness over the natural order is bound to tumble.

Those who do not abide by the rules of the game must eventually be thrown off the board.

 

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The usurpation of homo sapien consciousness

Over the natural order is bound to tumble.

Those who do not abide by the rules

Of the game must eventually be

Thrown off the game board.

 

 

CXXXI

Usurping nature in every way, imagination creates its own reality.

 

 

CLXXVIII

 

The most effective way to destroy an idea is to usurp the message with doublespeak.

 

 

CLXXXII

 

What a blatant mockery organized religion us of the teachers whose teachings they usurp.

 

 

CCXXXI

To usurp all that is good for maligned reason, is the way of the believer.

 

 

CCXLI

Ignorance will usurp anything for its own ends.

 

 

CCLI

Anything can be usurped.

 

 

CCLII

Alas, truth ignored and usurped yet again.

 

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What has not been usurped?

 

 

CCLV

What cannot be known cannot be usurped.

 

 

CCLVI

Anything and everything can be usurped for alternative purpose.

So, question anything and everything as often as necessary,

And always be cautious about what is accepted as true.

 

* * * *

There is a tendency for truth to be usurped and distorted in every way imaginable.

 

 

CCLVII

History has proven over and over again that anything can be usurped.

 

 

CCLXIII

How convenient it is for the multitude

Only capable of misinterpreting and usurping

The true meaning of those given vision.

 

 

CCLXVI

The irony of it all, of course, is how many usurp so many concepts,

Without even beginning to comprehend their true meaning.

The literal-minded are mesmerized by their absurdity.

 

 

CCLXX

Middlemen have risen to usurp the truth,

On every stage the play of mind has ever witnessed.

Put the many parasites behind you, and discover the sovereignty

Of your Self, in your Self, for your Self, by your Self.

 

 

CCLXXVII

Do not be usurped by gossip, and by the way, it is all gossip.

 

 

CCLXXXVI

It is the so-called scriptures that are relevant, that are worth perusing.

The thoughts of the thinkers from all times, all geographies;

Not the cults that have endlessly usurped them.

 

 

CCLXXXIX

 

No delusion can usurp the truth in any way ultimately meaningful.

 

 

CCXCI

 

Dogma uses that which it claims is truth to propagandize its confining stance.

And truth that is abridged, truth that is usurped for false purpose, is not the truth.

 

 

CCXCI

How ironic that the earnest encouragement of so many,

For others to raise themselves into goodness and wisdom and truth,

Is so often unheeded or forgotten or neglected or usurped.

 

 

CCXCIV

Usurp the usurper until they have nothing left to usurp.